by CoastView | Feb 15, 2025 | 2025, Beaches, Biodiversity, California, Coastal Features, Embayments, February 2025, Headlands, Land Use, Natural History, Parks
Point Resistance is a headland on Drakes Bay at the north end of Kelham Beach in the Phillip Burton Wilderness of Point Reyes National Seashore and on the western shore of the Marin Peninsula, about 27 miles (44 km) northwest of San Francisco and 3.5 miles (7 km)...
by CoastView | Feb 14, 2025 | 2025, Alaska, Beaches, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, February 2025, Glaciers, Land Use
Cape Suckling is an area of wave eroded rocky reefs backed by dunes and farther inland, the Suckling Hills and the terminus of the Bering Glacier, about 150 miles (241 km) west-northwest of Yakutat and 73 miles (117 km) southeast of Cordova, Alaska. The cape and hills...
by CoastView | Feb 13, 2025 | 2025, Alaska, Coastal Features, Embayments, February 2025, Islands, Land Use, Natural History, Parks
Canoe Passage is a State of Alaska Marine Park of 2,507 acres (1,015 ha) that includes both shores of a small boat passage that trends northwest-southeast and bisects Hawkins Island, located in southeastern Prince William Sound, about 44 miles (71 km) south-southeast...
by CoastView | Feb 12, 2025 | 2025, Beaches, Communities, February 2025, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Parks, Washington
Ebey’s Landing is a strand on the southwest coast of Whidbey Island on Admiralty Inlet in northern Puget Sound, and the site of a historic pioneer homestead, about 45 miles (72 km) north-northwest of Seattle and 2 miles (3.2 km) south-southwest of Coupeville,...
by CoastView | Feb 10, 2025 | 2025, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, February 2025, Land Use, Natural History, Rivers
Dry Strait is a tidal channel of the Stikine Flats, part of the Stikine River delta separating Mitkof Island to the west from Dry Island to the east in the Stikine-LeConte Wilderness, about 21 miles (34 km) southeast of Petersburg and 11 miles (18 km) north-northwest...
by CoastView | Feb 9, 2025 | 2025, Alaska, Embayments, February 2025, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Mines, Parks
Takli Island is situated in Amalik Bay, between Cape Ilktugitak to the southwest and Cape Atushagvik to the northeast, on the Shelikof Strait coast of the Alaska Peninsula in Katmai National Park and Preserve, about 154 miles (248 km) southwest of Homer and 81 miles...